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February 11, 2005, Friday

On the Road: The Manuscript SEAN HANNITY, the intensely conservative half of ''Hannity and Colmes'' on the Fox News Channel, has been talking to himself, while driving, and not about being cut off in the fast lane. Now the transcripts (he wears...

For directors, the last couple of weeks before a film is released can be the most anxious. At that point it's out of their hands. The film has been made and edited. The marketing campaign is in full swing. All that remains is the arrival of the...

Joe Mantegna faces some tough opponents tonight in ''Thin Air,'' a new A&E movie based on one of Robert B. Parker's detective novels. But they're not the many bad guys who wander through the story. They are Columbo, Kojak, Rockford, Barnaby Jones and...

September 12, 2000, Tuesday

Robert B. Parker has written more than 25 novels about a Boston private eye called Spenser, after the Elizabethan poet who wrote ''The Faerie Queene.'' Like the noble warriors in that 16th-century allegory, this tough-but-tender hero fancies himself...

July 18, 1999, Sunday

Not only is Spenser the toughest private eye who ever broke another tough guy's nose with the flick of a knuckle, but he's quick with a quotation, whether from Matthew Arnold or Rhett Butler. His main problem in Sunday's zesty A&E adaptation of...